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Grapple Ascent
During this game jam the theme were built to scale, my team interpreted with making a jojo whos built to scale a mountain. But a finite mountain is no fun, so we made it infinite.

My Contributions
  • Tower Generation
  • And more!


Project Specifications
Team Size: 5
Theme: Built to Scale
Reference: Getting Over It
Duration: 3 Days
Speed: 100%
Tower Generation
The tower generation is simple but dynamic. It begins by creating the main tower piece with a random orientation, based on a min-max range from the biome. This ensures that each tower feels unique. After that, flying boulders and stones are placed around the mountain, forming natural climbing paths. These features not only make the terrain more engaging but also provide strategic routes for the player to navigate the tower more easily.

Though the tower generation lacks checks to ensure that stones aren't generated too close to each other, which could potentially create an impassable segment, we found that the likelihood of this happening is minimal. After multiple players tested the game on itch.io, we concluded that the chances of generating an impossible segment were small enough not to significantly affect the overall gameplay experience.